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Bukharin on the Nature of the Chinese Revolution in 1928

People's History of Ideas Podcast

English - September 14, 2023 17:00 - 38 minutes - 26.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 110 ratings
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Previous Episode: Bukharin on the Theory of the Productive Forces (and Mao’s counterpoint on New Democratic Revolution)
Next Episode: Clashing Communists and Comintern Guidance: The 6th Congress Gets off to a Rocky Start

Our third (and last) close look at Bukharin’s speech at the 6th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, held in Moscow in the summer of 1928.

Further reading:
Nikolai Bukharin, “On the International Situation and the Tasks of the Chinese Communist Party”
Lenin, “Speech at the First All-Russia Congress of Working Women”

Some names from this episode:
Nikolai Bukharin, general secretary of the executive committee of the Comintern
Peng Dehuai, Guomindang colonel who was secretly a Communist and who launched an uprising in July 1928

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